In verse, beginning "A long time ago, in a house near a wood"

Cover title

Illustrated by Walter Crane

"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer" --P. [4] of cover

Place and date (1875) of publication from Spencer; Massé, followed in Osborne, suggests 1873; listed in English Catalogue, III, p. 110, with sixpenny toy books 111-116 as "1874-5"

At head of title: Price sixpence, or mounted on linen, one shilling

Consists of 4 bifolia printed on one side, chromoxylographs with letterpress; leaves 1 and 8 pasted down to inside of book's cover

Publisher's advertisement on p. [4] of cover

citation/reference: Spencer, I. Walter Crane, p. 202

citation/reference: Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane, p. 12

citation/reference: Osborne Coll. I, p. 27

action: conserved, repaired; 2015; Georgia Southworth Conservation; pda DSI SWC grant

Spencer, I. Walter Crane

Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane

Osborne Coll

conserved, repaired;

CHMRB copy 39088007509888 has bookplate: From the library of Miss Elizabeth Kean, Ursino, Elizabeth, New Jersey

CHMRB has accession no.: 1915

CHMRB copy had conservation treatment supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee in 2015

CHMRB copy has the publisher's color-printed paper cover, designed by Crane

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